E. Pauline Johnson (Mohawk)

Complete text of all the poems from the anthology Flint and Feather, including the poems from The White Wampum and CanadianBorn, as well as other miscellaneous poems.
Iroqrafts

Carol Lee Sanchez (Laguna Pueblo)
From spirit to matter by carol lee sanchez is a book of new and selected poems from the author's previous five books, Conversations from the Nightmare, Time Warps, Message Bringer Woman, excerpts from A Mountain Climber's Handbook and She) Poems. Published in 1997, this book won the 1996-1997 Writer of the Year in Poetry Award from the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers & Storytellers, an international literary organization of Native Americans. The author writes poems through an urban Native American/mixed blood/ multicultural perspective. The poems in this book were chosen by the author with a little help from her friends. It is still in its first edition.
Small Press Distribution

Esther Belin (Navajo)

Her poems put familiar cultural forms in a new context, as Coyote "struts down east 14th / feeling good / looking good / feeling the brown."  Belin provides graphic descriptions of the 'wounds' one endures remaining true to a 'native lifestyle'  — Library Journal

University of Arizona Press

Gloria Bird (Spokane)
Winner of the poetry, first North American Native Authors Book Award.
Greenfield Review Press

Alice M. Azure (Mi’kmaq)
In this magical collection of verse one can almost hear the dissonant din of partisan manufacture and the drumming, rattles, and the muffled shuffling of lines of dances snaking through the revivified ceremonial center.  This primetime poetry deserves a wide audience. - Raymond D. Fogelson, Editor, Handbook of the North American Indians
Albatross Press

Ralph Salisbury (Cherokee)
“The words of Going to the Water: Poems of a Cherokee Heritage ‘do it right’. They hit hard. And they must be heard. Listen.” - Simon Ortiz
Pacific House Books

Wendy Rose (Hopi/Miwok)
The title of Rose's ( The Halfbreed Chronicles and Other Poems ) new collection aptly points to the complexion of her poems. A descendant of the Hopi and Miwok tribes, the poet-as-shaman gives voice to her brothers and sisters: "I let my tongue lick / your bones back together . . . / I light the fire / to heat your lips. / I touch your spirit / that was never in danger," she intones in a poem about the Anishnabec Occupation. Meshing her own experience with revisionist history and newsworthy events, she carves a place for herself amid the cultures surrounding her, such as that of the Mormons, who "like to play / that I want to change, / that I don't mind ending myself / in their holy book." Culled from earlier books, and including a hefty selection of new work, this collection places 20 years of writing in perspective. Rose's concerns have remained consistent: ecological, archaeological and feminist. Assuming a sometimes ironic, sometimes angry cowboy-and-Indian stance, the speakers of many recent poems draw on the poet's experience as a university professor, dealing with interminable staff meetings and complacent students. Throughout the volume, the writing is at times prosaic, rhetorical or gimmicky, but the spirit rings true.
Northland Publishing

Armand Garnet Ruffo (Ojibway)
An Englishman with the imagination and the arrogance to pose as a North American Indian, a fur trapper who kept beaver as pets, a drunken brawling bigamist who embraced the wilderness to escape his ghosts, a compelling champion of that wilderness who travelled much of the world speaking to huge audiences about the fate of the natural world - who was the real Archie Belaney, known to many as Grey Owl? Grey Owl, the Mystery of Archie Belaney is a unique, accessible collection of narrative poetry and journal entries which examines this dynamic, often contradictory, always fascinating man who reconstructed his identity and delivered a message of conservation to the world.
Coteau Books

Maurice Kenny (Mohawk)

Poems and dialog given at a personal reading in the home of Kenny's publisher. Only one copy remain of this limited edition.
Heidelberg Press

Wendy Rose (Hopi/Miwok)
Rose is perhaps the most ritualistically oriented among American Indian poets. This is not always an advantage: fairly trite poems, put into ritualistic rhythms, at first seem more impressive than on second reading, while personal poems become weakened as emotion and experience gives way to an imposed ritual form. When ritual merges with contemporary American political consciousness, as in "Nuke Devils: the Indian women listen," Rose transforms anger into pride: "and nothing you can do/ will stop us/ as we re-make/ your weapons into charms." The book's final section represents an interesting new direction for Rose's work, as she evokes personified voicestortured social outcastswhom she finds representative of her own state.
West End Press